Officials at Catholic University, located in Washington,
DC, have decided to reject an application for an NAACP campus charter
because its parent organization supports abortion. This past February
and for the first time in its 95 year history, the NAACP officially announced
the organizations support of keeping abortion legal.

Julian Bond, NAACP Board Chair, responded to the
denial of this application by saying, "This is an issue of equal rights,
and we are pleased to join those insisting on a woman's right to control
her own body." The NAACP's public statement endorsing abortion cites "public
opinion surveys indicate that women of color seek abortions at rates higher
than their percentage in the population."

Weighing in on the issue, Dr. Ben Joseph, a retired
internal medicine physician in California states, "Thirty-six percent
of all abortions are performed on black women while they represent only
fourteen percent of the child bearing population. So, one need not be
a rocket scientist to deduce that in time, the black race in the USA will
become extinct. Yet, the NAACP, led by their President, Kweisi Mfume has
decided to perpetuate this genocide of their own people. Mfume even says
that Catholic University is intolerant when all the while it appears that
it is Mfume who is intolerant -- and of his own race."

NAACP President Kweisi Mfume expressed outrage over
this decision, "It is outright discrimination and intolerance all rolled
into one,'' Mfume noted this was the first time in decades that a college
has rejected a group of students to establish an NAACP affiliate on campus.
Mfume is a former Maryland congressman who established himself as a solid
supporter of abortion via his voting record during his time in Congress.

Spokesman Victor Nakas maintains the university
isn't not guilty of discrimination because two groups already exist that
promote the interests of African-American students on campus: the Black
Organization of Students at Catholic University of America and Minority
Voices.

Catholic University of America was founded by U.S.
Bishops. The Catholic Church's stand on abortion is "set in stone." The
Church stands firm that human life is sacred, inviolable and rejects "all
that violates this sacred gift, beginning with the direct destruction
of innocent human life which is abortion."

Mfume has threatened to sue if Catholic University
officials don't relent: “We are prepared to bring litigation against Catholic
University for violating what we believe is the right of all students
in America to free association and equal protection under the law.”